1847 N-7 R-3 LDS Braided Hair Large Cent Coin 1c

Glossy olive brown and steel with lighter brown toning in some of the protected areas on both sides. There is a nick on the rim at the upper margin of the rim cud from star 2 to star 3 and a fine scratch hidden in the toning from the throat to the hair bun. Otherwise there are only trivial nicks and no roughness.

Rare LDS, die state e, with a clearly defined rim cud break from star 2 to star 3 in addition to the earlier rim cuds from star 1 to under the adjacent 1 and from star 11 to star 12. All the rim cuds are obvious. VF+ Sharpness, Noyes photo #30126. Tied for CC#5 of the die state in the Grellman census.